Friday, 27 February 2009

During dinner with some election experts yesterday, a (now retired) professor answered to the question why he has never thought of running for office although his activities have put him in an excellent position to do so:

I have always preferred to stand in front of the cage and watch the apes jump up and down.

He said that he was perfectly independent as a professor and never saw the need to put himself into the "cage" of political limitations, and contented himself by remaining a visitor to the zoo of politics.